Intense shockwaves can actually do damage to your sinuses as shown. but real advice for explosions/shockwaves is to cover your ears and open your mouth slightly. More-or-less the opposite of whats' described in this chapter. Oh, nvm. It was supposed to be pheromones, not a shockwave.
While it's still a major step down from the first season, at least the art has improved enough from last season that you can tell what they're trying to draw.
Germanic runes have real sounds and meanings. The characters shown are AHE or "God/Odin"; "hail(weather)"; "horse." how the artist arrived at "tremble in fear" escapes me beyond a level of laziness that seems counter-producive in that it would been no more difficult to simply write the intended...
You may have gotten the wrong idea from hollywood but the kkk were essentially just the paramilitary wing of the democrat party (think what the IRA were to Sinn Fein in Northern Ireland.) They were generally motivated by their direct interests rather than larger ideological commitments or some...
There's a webnovel translation you can use as reference for the translation on novelupdates, It was dropped at some point but should be useful for several more chapters.
I'd guess no. I'm assuming this sort of thing is relatively formalized for Japanese manga publishers who afterall could't be relied upon to stick so rigidly to the western liberal narrative if it was done informally like with western publishers. That would mean there's unlikely to be many that...
The author seems to have a basic idea of past social relations and societal structure. Surprisingly rare considering how many stories are set in late medieval fantasy. The story itself is nothing special, but it does stand out for that at least.
Yeah, the premise lost all credibility when he didn't kill the hero. If I was made Emperor of Japan my first decree would be forcing the author of this novel to change the title to "Idealist Demon King."
It's rare that you see such a downgrade in writing quality between the LN and Manga. If it was failing because of poor art I'd understand, but why choose this novel to adapt in the first place if you're just going to change everything to be the same as every other limp-wristed liberal fantasy?